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Mixing medical evidence with a personal health experience
Karen D. Brown When I was diagnosed with breast cancer following a routine mammogram, my first response definitely wasn’t, “I…
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Questions arise about oversight of pediatric dentists
Alia Wong The state of Hawaii continues to investigate the death of a three-year-old girl who went into a coma…
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Sunshine Week: Committee advocates for access to information
This is Sunshine Week, a yearly celebration of open government. It’s held every year in the week that includes the…
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HHS moves to block chain of dental clinics from receiving Medicaid
Small Smiles, one of the nation’s largest dental chains, is facing exclusion from Medicaid, David Heath of the Center for…
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Experts discuss coming shifts in quality of life, culture around aging
“Have we matched our healthspan to our life span?” AgeWave.com founder and author Ken Dychtwald asked that question yesterday of…
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Studies reveal contradictions in efforts to improve socioeconomic status
“You as a society have made a decision that child poverty is what you want. I can only assume that’s…
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Announcing the 2014 AHCJ-Healthier Beat Health Journalism Fellows
Congratulations to our AHCJ-Healthier Beat fellows, who will be attending AHCJ’s annual conference, Health Journalism 2014. This program, aimed at better…
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Announcing the 2014 AHCJ-Rhode Island Health Journalism Fellows
Congratulations to our AHCJ-Rhode Island Health Journalism fellows, who will be attending AHCJ’s annual conference, Health Journalism 2014. We are able…
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Find out if a ‘deductible’ is really a deductible
One of the “simple” aspects of health insurance is – naturally – not always so simple. There’s been a lot…
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CMS withdraws contentious parts of proposal to change prescription drug program
Perhaps the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) learned a lesson over the past few weeks when it…
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